Today I gave my presentation for Vibewire Youth event FastBreak Breakfast, which was coordinated between Vibewire and Gavin Heaton (Obi-Wan).There were over 70 people in the room to hear my thoughts around creativity, Scott Drummond talk about connections, Isadore Biffin (and oh my fuck was she a passionate speaker!) talk…

Every Friday the infamous Coffee Mornings crew meets up at Single Origin Cafe in Surry Hills. We come together to talk ideas and innovation - and we've been lucky enough to take part in Vibewire's e-Festival of Ideas (held in conjunction with the Australian Innovation Festival) known as FastBREAK -…

Over the past 10 years I've been playing in a number of bands. Everything from hard rock, numetal, progressive and ambient. Generally playing guitar, vocals, bass, and in later projects - synths, pianos and strings. It's taught me so much about myself and the way people perceive music and performance. …

Next week I'll be moderating the social media session at Search Marketing Expo (#SMX). SMX will be held on April 4th through 5th, at Luna Park's Crystal Palaca. The social media session will be on day two at 1:30pm. Joining me will be SEO pioneer Rand Fishkin - CEO &…

"The word innovation, still in these very hard and disturbing times appears almost daily in the media. There are 360million references to innovation on Google and on my Google Daily RSS feed I receive notice of new books and articles released daily globally on the topic. And now I get…

Many designers as we (in this industry, anyway) know them were born and bred out of computers and digital instrumentation. TED has delivered another dose of pure inspiration as we hear John Maeda in My journey in design, from tofu to RISD. Now at the Rhode Island School of Design,…

Six Pixels of Separation recently wrote The Naked Truth - and with it some very interesting stats about the readiness of us youngsters to get our gear off. I'm a digital native, in the younger gen-y bracket, but I say: technology is no excuse for irresponsibility. Nor do I think…